Since his inauguration Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has moved to implement his pledge to save money, eliminate waste and shift the political priorities of the vast federal bureaucracy. This encompasses the Treasury Department, “foreign aid,” “diversity” programs across all…
SYDNEY — Electricians working for Sydney Trains walked off the job for eight hours here Feb. 12, part of an ongoing fight for a new contract. Some 200 members of the Electrical Trades Union from different depots joined a rally…
HAVANA — “We’re confronting a difficult world situation and the intensification of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba — but here we are, opening the 33rd Havana International Book Fair!” said Juan Rodríguez Cabrera, president of the Cuban Book Institute.…
BURNABY, British Columbia — More than 200 striking lab technicians, members of the British Columbia General Employees’ Union, and their supporters held a spirited rally Feb. 16 against concessions demanded by LifeLabs, the province’s main privately owned health laboratory and…
“The Strike,” a documentary, directed by JoeBill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey. BY BETSEY STONE OAKLAND, Calif. — I was glad to see that “The Strike,” a film about the 2013 prison hunger strike in California was aired on the PBS…
NEW YORK — Paul Mailhot, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of New York, joined some 60 postal workers and their supporters, in spite of heavy rain, in the Harlem neighborhood here Feb. 16 to rally in solidarity with…
MONTREAL — Hundreds of members of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) and other unionists marched and rallied in the snow here Feb. 15 to protest Amazon’s move to shutter its seven Quebec distribution centers. Union flags identified teachers,…
SYDNEY — “I want to reassure Jewish people and Israelis that you can come to hospitals and we will provide care and you will be safe,” said Michael Whaites, acting general secretary of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’…
Weekly protests by retirees from the oil, steel, telecommunications and sugar industries, along with retired teachers and other workers who find it impossible to make ends meet, have been taking place across Iran for well over a year and are…
From time to time, parties on the left and more often on the right of capitalist politics try to sell workers on the virtues of “smaller and cheaper government.” But the growing size of the capitalist state is an inevitable…
